What leads people to try to save their own lives while putting them and others at risk?
I read somewhere in an article that a group of people were found lost in the chilean desert, 23 people to be specific. The group is made up of 18 adults and 5 children and they got lost in the Chilean desert when they left Peru.
These people are Venezuelan, the quality of life they had in their country of origin closed the doors to a better future for them and they decided to move to another country to improve their own quality of life. I do not know if they traveled through illegal or legal means, but they went to Peru.
Apparently they didn't like the life they had there, so they decided to go to another country, like Chile which is close to them. As they say, they paid a person to guide them through their travel. I "assume" that this guide knows the route by which they were going, since in view of the pandemic, transit between the borders is not allowed. I imagine that the guide must have some knowledge of the routes to take. But... do you know what happened? The guide became disoriented and 23 people got lost in the desert.
Later, the Chilean authorities found them in a rarely traveled area of the desert. Dehydrated, but all alive. My question is, what makes a person risk their life and the lives of their loved ones?
Was the economic situation of the place where before worse than this situation that they faced?
I don't doubt that they have unfortunate lives, I don't know the details of what they were going through, but is common sense so clouded in these people or is their adventurous spirit greater?
They have gone through many difficult situations since leaving their native country but they have an immense sense of survival, because they are fighting to improve the quality of their lives and those of their family.
Only they know if all this is truly worth it. May God accompany you on your paths and lead you to make better decisions and to a better destination.
It is sad what the Venezuelan is going through, they left for better opportunities, thank God the desire and desire to live was greater than adversity.